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Ask HN: Where to Search for Remote Jobs?

57 pointsrigaspapas36 comments

Do you have any platform to suggest in order to search for remote jobs?

I used this when looking and think it needs to be shared wider. Everyone should feel free to contribute! (Not mine btw I found it during my last job hunt)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TLJSlNxCbwRNxy14Toe1...

I second that spreadsheet. Easy to search and sort information such as nb employees, city, country.

Thanks for using my spreadsheet :) all feedback welcome!

Thank you very much for making this. It made my job search incredibly easier. I have been sharing this with all my friends lately!

I've been working remotely for nearly 10 years now and I think it's a mistake to look for "remote" jobs. If you've got a strong skillset then most developer roles can be remote. If a company allows developers to work from home some days (which is most these days) then full remote is just a point of negotiation. I usually try to be as flexible as possible, offer to spend a couple of weeks on site in the beginning to get to know people (I prefer this actually) and make it clear that I can come over if there's team days and that sort of thing.

This has definitely gotten far easier over the last couple of years and I think post covid the trend will accelerate.

not everyone has the ability to travel. especially now. making remote a non negotiable. so if they are not 100% on board up front, i feel it would be a waste of energy to even apply.

i don't like to work for someone if they feel they are not getting what they want. that goes for everything i manage to negotiate. sure, i may be able to take advantage of their need and negotiate a bunch of perks, or a higher salary than what they offered, but if they are unsure about it, and as a result their expectations are extremely ly high, then that doesn't create a good work environment.

underpromise, overdeliver doesn't work in such a case

In a few hours you will see lots of fresh job postings here: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring

I.e. the monthly HN hiring threads. Some of the offerings will probably be for remote positions.

You will also be able to submit a “looking for a job” post there.

Yea, I'm really digging working from home. I'm nervous my employer, who I am otherwise happy with, will force me back into the office full time in a couple of months.

It actually has me considering looking around for a "true" FT remote position. If this is a permanent paradigm shift, I'd really prefer to NOT live close to any major city.

Yes, I am trying to get as far away from all major US cities as well. Remote work is hear to stay.

LinkedIn Glassdoor Indeed Stack Overflow Jobs (https://stackoverflow.com/jobs) Remote Ok (https://remoteok.io/)

Not sure what kind of roles you are looking for but for some particular technologies there are specific job posting platforms like Elixir Jobs (https://elixirjobs.net/)

These links come up a lot and work well.

https://weworkremotely.com

https://remoteok.io

https://hnhiring.com

On my last remote job hunt I have tried to find a job through the listings on different remote-first job boards but as many have already pointed out the number of applications is just too high and you might be turned down because you are asking for too much money compared to other devs.

Here's what I did instead -> Go on Linkedin, hit the search, filter to "Content" and use phrases like: "Looking for software developer", "Looking for your domain of expertise person", you get the idea. You will be able to find a dozen of fresh listings every other day from recruiters, hiring managers or even CTO's. The goal is to get to the job offer before it gets posted.

The technique worked very well for me as I've approached a hiring manager this way and got a job offer days later.

The limitation to this is the size of your Linkedin network since it searches just up to the 3rd degree connection deep.

A good alternative is Twitter where you could use the same approach but I haven't tried it much myself.

Best of luck!

I’ve heard that toptal (https://www.toptal.com/) is a good place to start, because you can get paid decently and you get in touch with serious employers.

I don’t have experience with them nor am I affiliated to them, so to take with a grain of salt.

I've heard the opposite, that the pay was low and the expectations were high, as in that they don't respect your off time and expect you to be on-call.

Don’t you set your own rates and timings at Toptal? From what I can see it functions more as a talent agency than as an employer.

I'll ask my friend next time we chat, but if its anything like other online agencies, you can set your rates, but such agencies draw clients who want cheap labor.

I'd steer clear of toptal and other big names (upwork, gigster etc.) and focus on niche platforms that focus more on the user experience, client quality and are not flooded with people willing to work for really low rates. I've heard ok things about gun.io and povioremote.com.

On a similar thread these two where mentioned

https://weworkremotely.com/

https://remoteok.io/

I've found my last two jobs through stackoverflow. They have a filter for remote. https://stackoverflow.com/jobs?r=true

I think https://freshremote.work hasn't been mentioned here yet. It's a bit of a newer site, but covers all kinds of remote positions worldwide with a clean and fast interface. Also provides keyword, category and region filters to narrow down a job search.

So probably not gonna be the most popular answer here but: LinkedIn. A lot of companies have hiring needs still and are remote only and decided remote will now be at least part of the strategy going forward, if not embracing it completely.

As someone who seeks out remote positions exclusively, now more than ever, you'll be able to find remote work.

Try the dedicated remote work job boards, but also check your standard job listing companies, too.

https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job

https://indeed.com -- You can specify remote

Besides 'HN Who is hiring' I'm looking at aggregators

https://workaline.com/

https://remoteweekly.cc

https://remotelypeople.com/

Also, you can find remote jobs in those decent list of companies https://www.levels.fyi/still-hiring/

https://remoteworkjobs.io

Here's a good list of remote work job boards: https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job#job-board...

There's also this: https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1wCeKcivSEseEnrsnDrhn...

In late 2020–2021 — just about anywhere :)

Not really... I've applied to multiple positions on linkedin and the only one that responded was a rejection because I was asking too much; their hourly rate that could offer was between 15$ and 20$. Hamburg startup rates, apparently, according to them.

I was asking 72k$ per year for a PHP position with 6 years experience working for a company and around 3-4 years part-time freelancing.

Small startups will pay peanuts. Also remote jobs will usually pay less because the supply is much higher, you compete with 100x more devs than the local devs, some from poorer countries where 20/h is a good rate.

> Also remote jobs will usually pay less because the supply is much higher, you compete with 100x more devs than the local devs, some from poorer countries where 20/h is a good rate.

Is there any data for this?

In my limited experience this was not the case but I've never really looked for a remote job

If you look at the job offers on linkedin, most of them have more than 50-60 candidates. That's my main problem with remote job interviews. How do you reach the actual interview stage when there are more than 100 candidates applying for the same position?

I think the problem with making it easy to apply for a job is that it encourages low effort applications, in essence a lot of people that don't meet the stated requirements will apply thus inflating the totals.

I used to have hiring responsibilities and I think the highest number of applications we got for a role was 57 and the company was completely unknown in a small city in the English midlands, so not exactly a tech hotstop.

A lot of the applications were not suitable at all

20$/hour is basically what you'll earn before taxes for an outsourcing company in eastern Europe.

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